{"id":96975,"date":"2025-08-26T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96975\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:09:10","slug":"oban-elliott-welsh-welterweight-looks-to-bounce-back-from-first-ufc-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/96975\/","title":{"rendered":"Oban Elliott: Welsh welterweight looks to bounce back from first UFC defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welsh welterweight Oban Elliott will fight Jonathan Micallef at the UFC Perth Fight Night in Australia on Saturday, 27 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout will be Elliott&#8217;s first since he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/mixed-martial-arts\/articles\/cp3l15el3leo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffered his first defeat in UFC against Seok Hyeon Ko in June.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, nicknamed &#8216;The Welsh Gangster&#8217;, took the fight with Ko in Azerbaijan at short notice, after a May bout with Ramiz Brahimaj in Las Vegas was cancelled because of visa issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unanimous 30-27 decision against him in Baku means Elliott has 12 wins and three losses from his 15 professional bouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian Micallef boasts an 8-1 professional record and is currently on a three-fight win streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both fighters earned their initial UFC contracts via Dana White&#8217;s Contender Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The bout at the RAC Arena in Perth is on a card headed by lightweight contenders Carlos Ulberg and Dominick Reyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welsh welterweight Oban Elliott will fight Jonathan Micallef at the UFC Perth Fight Night in Australia on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-96975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}